Apple won a Green Power Leadership award today from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its use of renewable energy to power its business, especially its data center in North Carolina, the building where Apple stores your music, photos and ... Read more >

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Can the same people who brought us search engines, Internet-powered smart phones, and the cloud also help us save the planet from climate change?

At Greenpeace, we think so, which is why we’ve been pushing the technology sector to provide the energ...

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Apple announces commitment to power data centers with 100% renewable energy.

There’s more good news to report from the clean energy revolution that’s spreading like wildfire among the biggest technology companies in the world: Apple released an environmental report today showing that it has made real progress in its ... Read more >

The effort to build a world powered by clean energy needs champions in every arena of our economy: activists on the streets, politicians in government, engineers in labs, and corporate leaders in boardrooms.

Today, we’re happy to recognize that Sal... Read more >

Google has begun 2013 with announcements of two significant investments to advance the future of renewable energy and energy efficiency in the United States.

Marking a significant new milestone in its clean energy advocacy efforts, Google’s philant... Read more >

Apple promised in May – thanks in part to pressure from its customers and Greenpeace supporters – that all of its data centres would become “coal-free” and powered by 100% renewable energy. However, rumours are circulating about a new data centre th... Read more >

When most people think of Amazon.com, they think of e-books or online shopping. But Amazon is also responsible for storing and delivering the data behind a massive portion of the Internet via its Amazon Web Services (AWS) business, including Netflix... Read more >

Every day, you rely on your computer, mobile phone, or tablet to be more productive, or just to have fun. Gadgets can make our lives better, but the rate at which we collectively purchase and discard them is having a serious impact on our planet.

So ... Read more >

Greenpeace began campaigning to make the electronics industry more transparent and less environmentally destructive with our Toxic Tech campaign, which successfully pushed major electronics companies like Apple to make their great products without s... Read more >

Ever wondered what the Internet looks like? If so, you’re in luck: Google has drawn back the curtains of its data centers, the facilities that compute and store all of our gmail, youtube videos, and searches.

[Photo: Google’s data center in Hamina,... Read more >

If you’ve followed the effort by Greenpeace International and hundreds of thousands of Facebook users around the world to get the social networking platform to Unfriend Coal, you’ll be heartened by today’s news.

Facebook published its 2011 energy... Read more >

Throughout high school, I swam in Mountain Island Lake and the Catawba River every summer. It was only within the last year, after I graduated just a few miles from there, that I learned what a risk I had been taking with those swims, thanks to t... Read more >

Apple’s clean energy plans still cloudy despite coal-free pledge

Apple’s clean energy policies have significantly improved, but the company still gets low scores for its energy choices when compared with sector leaders, according to a new Greenpeace ... Read more >

The iCloud just keeps on growing.

Apple announced yesterday that it will build its next data centre in Reno, NV in the United States. This latest facility joins Apple’s initial three data centres in California, North Carolina and Oregon; together th... Read more >

Ebay, the online auction house known for helping millions to buy and sell their stuff, made a savvy purchase of its own on Thursday: it bought fuel cells from Bloom Energy (like those pictured) to power one of its data centres in the United States. Read more >